[amsat-bb] Fw: PE1RAH's transponder

[Roger Kolakowski]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Kolakowski" <rogerkola at aol.com>
To: "Bruce Robertson" <ve9qrp at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] PE1RAH's transponder


> We have to remember that William's first transponder has already flown and
> been proven on India's Amateur Satellite where when it's not in use it
> stands as a "spare" in orbit
>
> Roger
> WA1KAT
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Robertson" <ve9qrp at gmail.com>
> To: "AMSAT-BB" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 5:52 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] PE1RAH's transponder
>
>
> > Somewhere in all this discussion about the future of AMSAT we need to
> > recognize the work that William did on the 10cm^2 U/V transponder that
> > was featured in the most recent Journal. Here we have a young person
> > -- by the reckoning of most of us -- taking the very component-based
> > approach to satellite building that has been seriously suggested as a
> > way forward. He has made something that will fit the most narrow and
> > most cheap form in launches today, the cubesat, and the result would
> > fulfill our interests in analogue communications satellites.
> >
> > I suppose I see this as something of a challenge for our forward
> > thinking. As a group, how do we respond to this? I would like to see
> > his work tested on ground, perhaps in more than one locale, perhaps in
> > an urban environment where it would get lots of traffic. Perhaps his
> > design could go through some sort of audit so that some of our
> > technical team could ensure that the most performance is being derived
> > from the least power.
> >
> > 73, Bruce
> > VE9QRP
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